Lamido Gets Threat from NNPP Chieftain: ‘I’ll Expose You If Defamation Continues’

The former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has been threatened by Malam Aminu Ibrahim Ringim, the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate for governor in the general election of 2023, for remarks made against him in his recently published autobiography.
According to reports, Lamido recently released his autobiography, “Being True to Myself,” which untangled military interventions, political events, and other events in Nigeria from the end of the Second Republic, through transition plans, and into the Fourth Republic.
Ringim responded to the book by accusing Lamido of falsifying his political background and facts during his speech at the party’s event on Wednesday in Taura Local Government Area.

In the book, Lamideo, the head of the NNPP, accused former President Goodluck Jonathan of treating his son Abdulsalam Abubakar unfairly by arresting him and Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, among others.
Lamido’s assertion that the PDP lost the 2015 gubernatorial election due to the candidate’s avaricious and nasty demeanor was also contested by Ringim.

According to him, Lamido presents himself in the book as a reliable leader who has never harmed anyone during his political career, but this is not at all the case.

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“Lamido is not treating himself and his political allies fairly because he has made a number of false claims that should be rectified.

In the 2015 general election, when I ran as the PDP’s governorship candidate, he claimed that all of my political allies abandoned me, which is why the party lost the election.

To put it plainly, the former governor is aware of the part he played in the PDP’s electoral defeat, despite the party’s popularity and strength in the state.

“I am well aware of you, including your personal and political history. If you keep slandering me, I might have to tell you things that will make you look bad in public.